2 Chronicles 22:2
New International Version
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

New Living Translation
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri.

English Standard Version
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

Berean Standard Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

King James Bible
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

New King James Version
Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri.

New American Standard Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

NASB 1995
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

NASB 1977
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

Legacy Standard Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

Amplified Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

Christian Standard Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king and reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri.

American Standard Version
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

Contemporary English Version
He was 22 years old at the time, and he ruled only one year from Jerusalem. Ahaziah's mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri of Israel,

English Revised Version
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Ahaziah was 42 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

International Standard Version
Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, Omri's granddaughter.

Majority Standard Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother?s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

NET Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

New Heart English Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athalih, the daughter of Omri.

Webster's Bible Translation
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

World English Bible
Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Ahaziah [is] a son of twenty-two years in his reigning, and he has reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Athaliah daughter of Omri;

Young's Literal Translation
A son of twenty and two years is Ahaziah in his reigning, and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Athaliah daughter of Omri;

Smith's Literal Translation
The son of forty and two years was Ahaziah in his reigning, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Athaliah, daughter of Omri.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

New American Bible
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri.

New Revised Standard Version
Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Ekhazyah was a son of twenty and two years when he arose in the kingdom, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Thalyah, daughter of Amri.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ochozias began to reign when he was twenty years old, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Gotholia, the daughter of Ambri.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ahaziah Reigns in Judah
1Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. 2Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri. 3Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.…

Cross References
2 Kings 8:26
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:5-6
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. / And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24:7
For the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had even used the sacred objects of the house of the LORD for the Baals.

1 Kings 16:29-31
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years. / However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. / And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

2 Kings 9:27-28
When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there. / Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.

2 Chronicles 18:1
Now Jehoshaphat had an abundance of riches and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

2 Chronicles 21:4
When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:17
So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.

2 Chronicles 22:3-4
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.

2 Chronicles 22:8-9
So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them. / Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 25:23
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

2 Chronicles 28:27
And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

Matthew 1:8
Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

Matthew 1:9
Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.


Treasury of Scripture

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

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2 Kings 8:26
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

Athaliah

2 Chronicles 21:6
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

1 Kings 16:28
So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

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2 Chronicles 22
1. Ahaziah succeeding, reigns wickedly
5. in his confederacy with Joram, the son of Ahab, he is slain by Jehu
10. Athaliah, destroying all the seed royal, save Joash, usurps the kingdom














Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king
Ahaziah's young age at his ascension to the throne highlights the instability and vulnerability of the kingdom during this period. His father, Jehoram, had a tumultuous reign, and Ahaziah's youth suggests a lack of experience in leadership. This age is significant as it contrasts with the wisdom and maturity often associated with older kings. The number twenty-two does not hold specific symbolic meaning in biblical numerology, but it does emphasize the brevity and fragility of his rule.

and he reigned in Jerusalem one year
Ahaziah's reign was notably short, lasting only one year. This brief period underscores the political turmoil and divine judgment upon the house of Ahab, to which Ahaziah was connected through his mother. The short reign is a fulfillment of the prophecy against the house of Ahab, indicating God's disfavor. Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, serves as the central location for the Davidic line, and Ahaziah's failure to maintain a stable rule there reflects the spiritual decline of the nation.

His mother’s name was Athaliah
Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, was a significant influence on Ahaziah. Her presence in the narrative highlights the continuation of idolatry and the worship of Baal, which she promoted. Athaliah's influence is seen as negative, leading Ahaziah away from the worship of Yahweh. Her role as queen mother gave her considerable power, which she later used to seize the throne of Judah for herself, furthering the corruption and apostasy in the kingdom.

the granddaughter of Omri
Omri was a powerful king of Israel and the founder of a dynasty known for its political strength and idolatry. His legacy is one of military and political success but spiritual failure, as he led Israel into deeper idolatry. The mention of Omri connects Ahaziah to this legacy, emphasizing the continuation of his policies and the spiritual decline associated with his house. This connection serves as a backdrop for understanding the divine judgment that falls upon Ahaziah and his family.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Ahaziah
The son of Jehoram and Athaliah, Ahaziah became king of Judah at the age of twenty-two. His reign was notably short, lasting only one year.

2. Athaliah
The mother of Ahaziah, she was a significant influence in his life and reign. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and her influence was largely negative, leading Ahaziah away from God.

3. Omri
The grandfather of Athaliah, Omri was a former king of Israel known for his political and military achievements, but also for leading Israel into idolatry.

4. Jerusalem
The capital city of Judah, where Ahaziah reigned. It was the center of political and religious life for the kingdom.

5. Reign of Ahaziah
Ahaziah's reign was marked by his alignment with the house of Ahab, leading to his downfall. His rule was characterized by idolatry and a departure from the ways of God.
Teaching Points
The Influence of Family
Ahaziah's life demonstrates the powerful influence of family, particularly parents, on one's spiritual direction. Believers should be mindful of the legacy they are creating for future generations.

The Consequences of Ungodly Alliances
Ahaziah's downfall was partly due to his association with the house of Ahab. Christians are encouraged to choose their associations wisely, as they can significantly impact one's faith journey.

The Importance of Godly Leadership
Ahaziah's short and troubled reign serves as a reminder of the need for leaders who seek God's guidance. Believers should pray for and support leaders who uphold biblical values.

The Shortness of Life and Reign
Ahaziah's brief reign is a reminder of the brevity of life and the importance of living with purpose and integrity. Christians are called to make the most of their time by serving God faithfully.
Lists and Questions
Top 10 Lessons from 2 Chronicles 22

If 2 Chronicles 22:2 identifies Athaliah as the granddaughter of Omri, how can the timeline accurately place her as Ahaziah’s mother?

Is Ahaziah's age 22 or 42?

In 2 Chronicles 22:9, how could Jehu swiftly seize and execute Ahaziah without apparent resistance, given Ahaziah’s royal status and resources?

Is Ahaziah's age 22 or 42?(2) Forty and two years old.--An error of transcription. 2Kings 8:26, twenty and two; and so the Syriac and Arabic: the LXX. has "twenty." Ahaziah could not have been forty when he succeeded, because his father was only forty when he died (2Chronicles 21:20).

Athaliah the daughter of Omri--i.e., granddaughter, she being daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. Kings adds, "king of Israel," which the chronicler purposely omits. (Comp. Micah 6:16 : "The statutes of Omri," "the works of the house of Ahab.")

Verse 2. - Forty and two; read, twenty and two, and see parallel, 2 Kings 8:26; and note on our 2 Chronicles 21:5. Daughter of Omri; i.e. granddaughter of Omri, as Omri was the father of Ahab.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Ahaziah
אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּ (’ă·ḥaz·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 274: Ahaziah -- 'Yah has grasped', the name of several Israelites

[was] twenty-two
אַרְבָּעִ֨ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

years old
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

when he became king,
בְמָלְכ֔וֹ (ḇə·mā·lə·ḵōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

and he reigned
מָלַ֖ךְ (mā·laḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

in Jerusalem
בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (bî·rū·šā·lim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel

one
אַחַ֔ת (’a·ḥaṯ)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

year.
וְשָׁנָ֣ה (wə·šā·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

His mother’s
אִמּ֔וֹ (’im·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

name
וְשֵׁ֣ם (wə·šêm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

was Athaliah,
עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ (‘ă·ṯal·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6271: Athaliah -- daughter of Ahab, also three Israelites

the granddaughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Omri.
עָמְרִֽי׃ (‘ā·mə·rî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6018: Omri -- a king of Israel, also several other Israelites


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